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US20110304823A1
US20110304823A1 US13/155,694 US201113155694A US2011304823A1 US 20110304823 A1 US20110304823 A1 US 20110304823A1 US 201113155694 A US201113155694 A US 201113155694A US 2011304823 A1 US2011304823 A1 US 2011304823A1
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Marius WENSING
Daniel HÔLKER
Gûnther SCHÖTTLER
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
    • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
    • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
    • E04F10/0666—Accessories
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
    • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
    • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
    • E04F10/0692—Front bars
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
    • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
    • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
    • E04F10/0692—Front bars
    • E04F10/0696—Front bars with means to attach an auxiliary screen
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/02—Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein
    • H04R1/028—Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein associated with devices performing functions other than acoustics, e.g. electric candles
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
    • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
    • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
    • E04F10/0685—Covers or housings for the rolled-up blind
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03B21/00—Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor
    • G03B21/10—Projectors with built-in or built-on screen
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03B21/00—Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor
    • G03B21/54—Accessories
    • G03B21/56—Projection screens
    • G03B21/58—Projection screens collapsible, e.g. foldable; of variable area
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03B29/00—Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects

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  • the invention relates to an awning with a base part, which can be attached to a building part, a fabric shaft which can be rotatably driven thereon, preferably by means of a motor, and an awning fabric, which can be retracted and extended and can be wound onto the fabric shaft and unwound therefrom.
  • the base part is to be taken to mean here any component, with the aid of which the awning, for example a joint arm awning, winter garden awning or window awning, can be fastened to a building part, such as an external wall, a winter garden or a window reveal.
  • base parts of this type owing to the type of construction, are awning housings, fastening brackets, holding frames or the like.
  • awnings are preferably used in the areas of recuperation and relaxation, such as terraces and balconies.
  • Alternative configurations provide for attaching loudspeaker boxes, for example, to the awning housing, by means of brackets.
  • the invention is based on an object of improving an awning in such a way that it as optimally as possible fulfils multi-media objects.
  • a sound production system which has a driver controller and at least one sound actuator activated thereby and coupled to an awning component.
  • This at least one sound actuator causes the awning component to carry out defined oscillations to emit a sound signal, in particular a music and/or speech signal.
  • a component of the awning such as, for example, a surface of the drop out profile, the awning fabric itself or a wall of the awning housing is directly used, therefore, as the sound-producing element, which component is caused to carry out corresponding oscillations by means of the sound actuator.
  • the extensive experience with adaptive audio systems can be utilised, such as is available, for example, from the company Bose® in conjunction with their “Acoustic Waveguide Technology” or the “ADAPTiQ®”—audio calibration system.
  • a plurality of sound actuators may be provided for acting on one or more awning components.
  • the driver controller provided according to the invention is moreover to be taken to mean the core of the sound production system provided to activate the sound actuator(s), which core, in accordance with conventional audio systems, has at least one signal production component for producing analogue or digital sound control signals, with which a power amplifier is activated. This then supplies the sound actuators with the actual music or speech control signals to cause the respective awning component to carry out its defined oscillations.
  • the supply of the driver controller with the corresponding sound control signals can take place by all known methods, such as line-bound ones, by WLAN, short-range radio standards, such as Bluetooth or else by docking on a memory module via an intersurface, such as, for example, a USB port.
  • the currently conventional MP3 players, iPods® or iPhones®, for example, can be connected via the latter.
  • Qualitatively high-grade sound patterns such as stereo or Dolby® surround sound can be produced by the preferably provided use of a plurality of sound actuators in defined coupling to a plurality of awning components.
  • an awning For comprehensive multi-media use of an awning, the latter may be provided, in accordance with a preferred embodiment, with an image projection surface, which may preferably be a screen element hanging down from the drop profile.
  • An additional drop curtain offered by the Applicant as special equipment under the name “Schatten Plus” can basically be used for this, and can be retracted and extended by means of an additional winding shaft in the drop out profile.
  • This additional drop curtain only has to be provided, as a screen element, at least on the inside, with a homogeneously light-reflective coating or material layer.
  • a corresponding projection device into the awning is recommended as a particularly preferred embodiment of an awning in conjunction with the projection surface as an additional device.
  • this is primarily a beamer, with the aid of which still and moving images can be produced on the projection surface.
  • this awning realises a self-sufficient multi-media system, which can be optimally used precisely during times of recuperation and relaxation on a terrace or a balcony.
  • FIG. 1 shows a rear view of an awning in a partially opened state
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show enlarged detailed views of the details E and F according to FIG. 1 .
  • the articulated arm awning shown has, as a base part, the awning housing 1 , which can be mounted by corresponding brackets 2 , 3 on a building part, not shown in more detail, such as an external building wall.
  • Further base parts of the awning provide two articulated arm pairs 4 , 5 , which are articulated by their inner ends to the awning housing 1 . Their free ends carry the drop out profile 6 as a further base part of the awning, on which the front end of the awning fabric 7 is fastened. The latter is generally wound, when the awning is retracted, onto the fabric shaft 8 , shown by dashed lines, in the awning housing 1 .
  • the awning shown is designed as a multi-media awning.
  • a sound production system designated as a whole by 9 which consists of a driver controller 10 , which is accommodated in the awning housing 1 , and two sound actuators 11 , 12 .
  • the latter are mechanically coupled to the two outer ends 13 , 14 of the drop out profile 6 .
  • These may be piezo-electric oscillation generators, which cause the corresponding front wall 15 of the drop out profile 6 to carry out defined oscillations to emit a sound signal, such as a music and speech signal.
  • the correspondingly produced sounds and tones can then be perceived, in particular below the awning in the rest region shaded thereby.
  • the driver control 10 has a WLAN receiving part 16 , with which analogue or, in particular, digital sound control signals can be wirelessly received. These sound control signals may, for example, be transmitted by a PC system inside the house. These signals are processed in a processor part 17 , in order to activate an end stage 18 in such a way that the latter emits defined power signals to the sound actuators 11 , 12 via line connections, not shown in more detail.
  • the awning is also provided with a screen element 19 , which can be wound onto an additional winding shaft 20 in the drop out profile 6 and unwound therefrom.
  • the screen element can be extended downward in such a way that it hangs vertically down from the drop out profile 6 .
  • a beamer 21 which can be supplied, for example, via the WLAN receiving part 16 of the sound production system 9 with corresponding image signals, is finally integrated, as a projection device, into the awning housing 1 .
  • the beamer 21 then projects the corresponding images or films onto the screen element 19 .

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